Are any of you able to make a specific donation toward this
need? Your donation can be placed in the contribution box
marked “Worldwide Work” in your Kingdom Hall. Or are some of
you in a position to make a conditional donation or loan
until the branch is sold and then your donation would be
returned to you?

“‘Zion’s Watch Tower’ has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while
this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support. When
He who says: ‘All the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails
to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend
the publication.” - Zion’s Watch Tower July 1879

Personally, I find the idea of a billion dollar publishing company asking poor Indian brothers for money so they can further their own cause to be sickening.

According to the Indian Government's order passed in 2000, Watchtower in India cannot receive any funds (not even a cent) from any other country in the world. Anything that comes has to come from Indian field.

Personally, I find the idea of a billion dollar publishing company asking poor Indian brothers for money so they can further their own cause to be sickening. -pale.emperor

WT in US maybe a billion dollar corporation, but due to government restrictions on foreign funds, that means nothing for the Indian branch.

Prima facie, it looks that Indian JW's are poor. But JW's living the metros of India are wealthy enough to keep the work going. Many in India predicted that WT India would not survive even one year without the foreign funds, but the work plodded along for 18 years. JW's in India have their own pool of wealthy JW's to necessitate the shortfall of any kinds of funds.

“‘Zion’s Watch Tower’ has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support. When He who says: ‘All the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication.” - Zion’s Watch Tower July 1879

Well they're getting closer to "suspending publication".

Just ten years ago it was two 32 page Watchtowers a month. Each printed in the tens of millions.

Now it will be one study copy for how many JW's? Plus a crappy one every so often for the "ministry."